Two stores in my area (one doesn’t have social media) are refusing to carry the new set. See y’all on the front lines of battle š«”
by alyxR3W1ND
Pokemon Trading Card Game
Two stores in my area (one doesn’t have social media) are refusing to carry the new set. See y’all on the front lines of battle š«”
by alyxR3W1ND
30 Comments
Owner kept them all for himself š¤£š¤£
Anyone who’s going to “battle” to buy Pokemon cards is pathetic. Aside from a few packs I’ve arranged to buy from my local toy store I’m sitting this set out too. It’s sad that a fun nostalgic collection hobby has now turned into this.
No Supreme Darkness set either? >:(
Honestly this set is so hyped up that we will all wonder why in like half a year. Great decision of the store to sit this one out.
Personally I actually dislike the special illustrations and prefer the 151 art, so I’ll enjoy the madness from a distance.
Maybe they’re legit, but there’s also a very good chance that stores claiming this are just choosing to sell on the secondary market at inflated prices from different accounts to avoid backlash on their store for selling above MSRP.
Wouldn’t be the first time we’ve seen stuff like this happen.
I’m sure this set is worse than the sets released at the 2020/2021 peak. I was able to preorder products for those sets. I can’t seem to get anything for this one.
My usual store is looking after locals which is fair but I’m 150 miles away. My local joined the scalping bandwagon so don’t buy from them anymore. Several sets they instantly sold out only for me to find pictures of said sold out items on a private eBay listing with their shop in the background š¤£
Hey! I live near there too š
Bought one box of Terestral Festival, the appeal is guaranteed pulls.
The English pull rates are so bad that it kills any hype for the sets and makes it an easy skip.
LOL or they lying and backdooring hahaha.
Figured I would just clear the air for all the people commenting on this. I live near this particular shop. I have talked with the owner on several occasions about Pokemon cards. People are CRAZY. She is not hiding them for personal use, or reselling them. She is genuinely concerned for the safety of her small business that has been broken into THREE times within the past 6 years and when they have *ONLY* taken Pokemon cards. I understand that you all might be thinking that most stores that say they donāt have the new set might be doing something fishy with the cards- but I can assure you that this shop is not. Iām sure she would appreciate not having comments of accusing the shop of doing something weird with them.
This really worries me honestly. I know you are joking but I do think there will be tragic incidents involving this set and more to come. I think it’s incumbent on us to press this up the food chain to get this solved
Whoever is in charge of this NEEDS to start printing more. I assume they don’t because they have this schedule they need to keep but something needs to change.
I think the only way to get through to them in this is to press influencers to press them. I’m sure if a wave of media is strong enough it can drive change.
I think it’s in everyone’s best interest to keep discussing this and maybe do what you can to get the mainstream media to pick it up too.
I really enjoyed my last year as part of this hobby. But it’s not fair what is going on with supply and there is going to be real problems if they don’t address either it or the scalping.
Even reputable card shops are already selling a set that isn’t out at over MSRP. Totally unacceptable.
I survived the Van Gogh museum raid so this will be an easy battle šŖ
Most american thing i’ve read today
Its entirely the resellers/scalpers that attracting the worst types of people to the hobby looking for their next āhustleā
Wouldn’t be surprised if their allocation numbers were low and owner just decided they’d rather keep for themselves or sell them for market.
Hey there. Speaking from a friend who has a card store.
Apparently Pokemon did some research and analysed stores who had ordered products and their prices and price history and what they’ve been offering to customers. LCS that that sell at MSRP (RRP) have been allocated their stock and stores that were price gouging and having expensive pre orders were neglected.
Where’s this shop based?
I feel really bad for getting back into the hobby at this point, Iām finally an adult with a well paying job and I can finally live out my fantasies as a kid by ripping a pack or two every day and maybe grabbing a etb or booster box every now and then. I donāt resell and Iām doing it for my own collection but after the past couple weeks in this hobby I see that thereās insane supply/demand issues and I feel like Iām ruining it for everyone else jumping back on ship so late.
“Investors”. Can’t wait them to quit soon enough.
What a bizarre world we live in.
ngl as a small store owner i would totally also either wait a while or just not sell them. it would be so annoying to handle people with that attitude.. really sad tho
Waiting to see this with hotwheels locally too. Shits nuts.
This hobby is fucked
The resellers/scalpers/āinvestorsā who buy these cards in bulk only to dump 99% of the cards just to treat them like a 401k are truly some of the most pathetic people. I know this sort of thing should be a wake up call to them but also how theyāll just think itās the *other* people who are the problem.
Nobody likes Shrouded Fable. I quite enjoyed collecting it. Itās everywhere and no one is fighting over it and the prices are reasonable.
Having to not sell a new set for the safety of workers in actually so distopian
These local stores sometimes jack up prices too
But that’s good they are putting safety over manchild NeckBeard investors
Unless all the cards aren’t being shown yet
Good for them for calling out entitled collectors. Some of you here fail to acknowledge they exist or that you are one.
Investment bros ruining everything. Why donāt they just buy stocks like a normal adult if they are really keen on making money?
This shit has gone too far. They need to start arresting anyone getting physical and set buy limits